John, because of the faculty here, they have been kind enough to give me a platform to work with the center for political communication and be part of series, the National Agenda series. We are working, the bidens, because the board have been generous in along me to bring some major, serious stuff people from washington who work with me and who know you and you know them and to Work Together to purece some genuinely objectives. One is to reduce serious academic material that sheds light on the issues of the day. Bring to the campus expose them to some of the best minds and leaders in the country in all fields, but mainly in this field this case, politics. Dr. Hoffman, thank you for letting us join your operation and thank you for being willing to moderate. And nancy, who ive known since she was a child she reminded me she started interviewing me when my daughter was four years old. She said she was peeking out from behind the desk at the time. Nancy has done a great job here. I just wa
Series, the National Agenda series. We are working, the bidens, because the board have been generous in along me to bring some major, serious stuff people from washington who work with me and who know you and you know them and to Work Together to purece some genuinely objectives. One is to reduce serious academic material that sheds light on the issues of the day. Bring to the campus expose them to some of the best minds and leaders in the country in all fields, but mainly in this field this case, politics. Dr. Hoffman, thank you for letting us join your operation and thank you for being willing to moderate. And nancy, who ive known since she was a child she reminded me she started interviewing me when my daughter was four years old. She said she was peeking out from behind the desk at the time. Nancy has done a great job here. I just wanted you to know, you know, it is not that hard for john and i to get along. We never had trouble. We come from the same background. We have slightly d
And a from earlier in the day the close to four hours of nonstop diverse questions from the press our correspondent was there for us. But the things that are particularly stupid out for me this time is that the share of questions that you might want to call challenging for White America about corruption about the silencing of political opponents in russia was perhaps a bit larger this time then previously he was indeed grilled about the lack of competition in russian politics and one question came from perhaps his direct opponent a person who wants to become a president ial candidate in russia in twenty train a subject thats a major issue for those who want to represent that nonsystem opposition they have to offer not a short lived and shrill agenda but a real one why is it so difficult to be nothing maybe the government is frightened of fact compete issued by the to the opposition should present a program of positive action thats clear to the public do you want someone with the intent
Joining us from this hour welcome to moscow and to r. T. International my names you know. Your company we begin with breaking news from the u. S. Where lawmakers have voted to scrap socalled Net Neutrality which could significantly alter the web experience for millions of people it with internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites well heres a breakdown of how it actually all works we access the web through Internet Service providers at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic equally but the u. S. Federal Communications Commission say thats preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services with Net Neutrality regulations gone. Oh yes peas will be free to charge a premium to prioritize certain ups and services well going through its more is your account shes live in the us couple or so we were tell us more about the vote how it unfolded well the f. C. C. Is latest decision will
Around the clock across the world this is r. T. International my names you dont know me welcome to the program the u. K. High court house and the british troops were in breach of human rights conventions abusing civilians during the iraq war including taking turns to drive over there but. More on todays ruling. Specifically we have seen four iraqi citizens being awarded damages in cases against the actions of the ministry of defense during the iraq war in the way these people were detained now the court has decided that these four iraqi citizens are going to be awarded eighty four thousand pounds with thirty thousand going to just one of those men and the reason for this is the judge has ruled that the actions of british troops in the way they were detaining these people were in violation of geneva conventions as well as the human rights act citing cruel and Inhumane Treatment as well as unlawful detention the judge has said that these assaults quote involved the gratuitous infliction